Posted on 12/29/2025 8:42:35 AM PST by DFG
The United States on Monday announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance and warns United Nations agencies to “adapt, shrink or die” in a time of new financial realities.
The money is a small fraction of what the U.S. has contributed in the past but reflects what the administration believes is a generous amount that will maintain the United States’ status as the world’s largest humanitarian donor.
The pledge creates an umbrella fund from which money will be doled out to individual agencies and priorities, a key part of U.S. demands for drastic changes across the world body that have alarmed many humanitarian workers and led to severe reductions in programs and services.
The $2 billion is only a sliver of traditional U.S. humanitarian funding for U.N.-backed programs, which has run as high as $17 billion annually in recent years, according to U.N. data. U.S. officials say only $8-$10 billion of that has been in voluntary contributions. The United States also pays billions in annual dues related to its U.N. membership.
Critics say the Western aid cutbacks have been shortsighted, driven millions toward hunger, displacement or disease, and harmed U.S. soft power around the world.
A year of crisis in aid
The move caps a crisis year for many U.N. organizations like its refugee, migration and food aid agencies. The Trump administration has already cut billions in U.S. foreign aid, prompting them to slash spending, aid projects and thousands of jobs. Other traditional Western donors have reduced outlays, too.
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US out of the UN. The UN benefits the mooches and takes advantage of USA’s good nature. Individual treaties with individual countries that are allies. This crap of buying our friends and then bending over while they kick us has to STOP.
Save money for Americans, for people with serious diseases like MS and Lou Gehrig’s disease, cancer, etc.
$2B too much.
Many many years ago, a young developer named Donald Trump, called on the President of the US and the Mayor of New York to kick out the UN and let him build luxury condos on the land the UN sits the East River. He should do it now. JUST CLOSE THE DAMN THING. What does it actually do that is good for us?
Many many years ago, a young developer named Donald Trump, called on the President of the US and the Mayor of New York to kick out the UN and let him build luxury condos on the land the UN sits the East River. He should do it now. JUST CLOSE THE DAMN THING. What does it actually do that is good for us?
Yeah, still too much. The UN is not worthy of our support. This will go to muzzle countries and next to none of it will help poor people.
It pays for administration…….like most of the US government programs
We are $38.56 TRILLION DOLLARS in DEBT, there IS NO MONEY you foolish Presstitutes!
It would be nice, but the Rockefellers own the land. No way that could happen. My dream was a Trump Casino/Hotel! 😉
Implant birth control in the women.
Send battalions of medics to do vasectomies on an assembly line.
Give them each a free Happy Meal on the way out.
Try to think of a country that needs humanitarian aid that won’t take it then spit in our eye, then use the money to prop up a dictatorship. Ya, neither can I.
Why give them anything?
Two billion dollars is a “small fraction.” Think on that for a moment...
Wonder how much of U.N. humanitarian aid food and medical end up in third world countries army warehouses as the people die.
Not one cent!
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